Bagsies Need To Be Earlier Than This...

... if we're going to get anything organised. Especially if said bagsie is for an out of town event.

So, it's a late one, but I'll happily host now I have more than one place to sit. Usual yadda yadda 'Fi Club stuff applies, and being as I didn't get my sh* together on the 7 days signup I'm happy for the most ruthless of you to swap out my HDD for your own.

Bring your own suppage as well as cash for as much pizza as you think you'll want to eat. I'll do the crisps and things for while we are getting comfy and I'll see if I can find anything worthy for dessert.

Apologies for the lack of wordsmithing in this bagsie, it's not up to my usual woo woo I know but this is the maddest mentalist time of year at work in a year that has been pretty fkn mental.

7 Days of Fi - Day Two

And so on to day two!

The second day of our mighty challenge saw a third entrant into the fray, as JalSaviour eked a few measly points out of Call of Duty 3, while Munchk took advantage of the distraction of the BoP bikes to push into the lead with a 40 point gain exclusively from Mercs 2.

I fall to second place with no gain.

360voice.com says

Here is the news... The competition is heating up as munchk jumped in front of andybeta by putting up 40 points. When you count it up, all 5 challengers gained 85 points. jalsaviour added 45, and munchk added 40. The obvious superstar from yesterday is jalsaviour. With that big of a gain, who knows what could happen next.

Don't freak out... plenty of time left! 5 whole days! That is all for today, check back tomorrow for more challenge action!

But what's this? Looks like k0ckle has been busy this morning. Tomorrow's results could see a complete reshuffle!

7 Days of Fi - Day One

Day one drew to a close at 8am BST with some impressive point gains by two challengers, namely Munchk and myself. All points were drawn from Mercenaries 2, which frankly bleeds GP like a cut hog. If it hadn't been for the amazingly generous 50GP just for playing co-op then Munchk would've taken the lead.

360voice.com says:

Challenge update - 9/18/2008

Here is a recap... andybeta gave up the social life to get the lead by tacking on 165 points. When you count it up, all 5 challengers gained 315 points. andybeta added 165, and munchk added 150. There are 6 days left, so... yeah... plenty of time. The excitement continues tomorrow!

Indeed it does. Or rather today.

Personally I'm going to be biking around Paradise tonight, so probably no points for me. I can't see me holding this lead tomorrow.

I Want To Ride My Bicycle

Burnout Friday is looking to become Burnout Thursday this week due to the release of the Bike Pack for Burnout Paradise on the 18th.

This handily leaves Friday open for a proper hosted Fi Club courtesy of [[TBA]] (go on, you know you want to.)

The Bike pack includes:

• Pick from 2 motorcycles featuring male or female characters and start on a whole new progression to earn your Bike License.

• 38 new against-the-clock race events – Burning Ride and Midnight Ride.

• A brand new in-game 24 hr day / night cycle that impacts traffic density and available events. (It's fully customisable – you can make it day/night/change the clock speed – it's up to you.)

• Dynamic weather brings an all-new look to Paradise City

• And if that's not enough, we've got 70 more Freeburn Challenges too

Luvverly... There's likely to be at least two teams going on from the Eurogamer lot.

7 Days of Fi - The Challenge

As you all know, if you check your email, I have set up a challenge on 360voice.com to see who can gain the most Gamerpoints in a week.

I had intended to launch today at midday, regardless of who has joined. When I went to launch, slightly disappointed that we were still missing three major players, a full 50% of the invited challengers, it informed me that play would start as of midnight PST. This equates to 8am BST.

Therefore I declined the launch in order to give you latecomers a chance to sign up and register for the challenge. Don't make me name names.

I will launch tonight at Midnight BST regardless.

Castle Crashers

Is anyone thinking of grabbing the full game? I played the single player demo and it seems well made and quite playable. Multiplayer coop is supposed to be a complete riot.

Comic Genius - ComicRack

absolutely nothing to do with games... As avid comic and eComic readers, I have come across an iTunes-esq application for cbr and cbz's. Coupled with an export to pdf, library, network sharing and smart playlist functionality, this is a fantastic little open source application.

linky

Edit: apologies, windows only at the moment.